In order to claim a million-dollar inheritance, you have to find the grave of your Aunt Bedilia, dig her up, and get her locket. It will not be easy because the graveyard is haunted by zombies and other strange things. Plus, you have decided to search at night.

This is a text adventure, where you have to solve puzzles and examine your surroundings. The puzzles are not too difficult and, while the game’s descriptions are terse, they still provide you with everything that you need to know.

Still, as with most text adventures sometimes this will happen:

I turned out that the proper command was “get recorder.” Sometimes, coming up with the right command can be frustrating but it is nothing that cannot be figured out. After you get the recorder, you can find a tape and get some background information on what’s been happening in the cemetery:

The game picks up once the zombies show up.

It is not just zombies that you have to worry about. There are also bats.

Night of the Walking Dead is a very simple game but I enjoyed it. Now, if I can just figure out how to avoid those bats…